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  Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 21, 2017 Russia's Roscosmos State Space Corporation on Friday said it approved a model of the Luna-25 space station created as part of the development project Luna-Glob Moon exploration program with the start of the mission scheduled for 2019. "The automatic interplanetary station Luna-25 will be the first mission of the Russian lunar program. The aim of the project is to create an automatic explorer for complex research on the surface of the Moon in the circumpolar region. The development project Luna-Glo ... read more |
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System tests prepare Orion for deep space explorationKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 Hurtling beyond the Moon at a speedy 25,000 mph for a three-week mission requires a space processor capable of operating with guaranteed reliability, in a high radiation environment tens of thousand ... more  
Large asteroid to safely pass Earth on September 1Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 21, 2017 Asteroid Florence, a large near-Earth asteroid, will pass safely by Earth on Sept. 1, 2017, at a distance of about 4.4 million miles, (7.0 million kilometers, or about 18 Earth-Moon distances). ... more  
Russia could launch Spektr-RG space observatory with German telescope in 2018Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 16, 2017 Russia could launch the Spektr-RG (Spectrum Roentgen Gamma) space observatory with the German eRosita X-ray telescope in October 2018, a spokesperson of the Lavochkin Research and Production Associa ... more 
Reality Bites for Google Lunar X-PrizeSydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 17, 2017 Once again, the ever-fluid deadline for the Google Lunar X-Prize (GLXP) has been extended. This award is now getting well beyond its use-by date. The GLXP was already on shaky ground before this. Th ... more |
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Studying the sun's atmosphere with the total solar eclipse of 2017Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 A total solar eclipse happens somewhere on Earth about once every 18 months. But because Earth's surface is mostly ocean, most eclipses are visible over land for only a short time, if at all. The to ... more 
Lunar dynamo's lifetime extended by at least 1 billion yearsBoston MA (SPX) Aug 14, 2017 New evidence from ancient lunar rocks suggests that an active dynamo once churned within the molten metallic core of the moon, generating a magnetic field that lasted at least 1 billion years longer ... more  
South Korea vows no war despite North's missile threatSeoul (AFP) Aug 17, 2017 South Korea pledged Thursday that there would be no war on the Korean peninsula, as prospects of a pre-emptive US strike to destroy Pyongyang's nuclear missile program receded. ... more 
Day to night and back again: Earth's ionosphere during the total solar eclipseGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 14, 2017 On Aug. 21, 2017, the Moon will slide in front of the Sun and for a brief moment, day will melt into a dusky night. Moving across the country, the Moon's shadow will block the Sun's light, and weath ... more 
S. Korea seeks rare talks with North to ease military tensionsSeoul (AFP) July 17, 2017 South Korea on Monday offered to hold rare military talks with North Korea, aiming to ease tensions after Pyongyang tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile. ... more 
Moon's magnetic field lasted far longer than once believedNew Brunswick NJ (SPX) Aug 14, 2017 The moon's magnetic field lasted 1 billion to 2.5 billion years longer than once thought - a finding with important implications for habitability on other moons and planets throughout the universe, ... more |
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 Asteroid to shave past Earth on Oct 12: ESA 
NASA studies tethered CubeSat mission to study Lunar swirlsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 09, 2017 A novel mission concept involving two CubeSats connected by a thin, miles-long tether could help scientists understand how the Moon got its mysterious "tattoos" - swirling patterns of light and dark ... more 
Astronauts to bring asteroid back into lunar orbitWashington DC (SPX) Aug 09, 2017 Future space exploration aims to fly further from Earth than ever before. Now, Italian Space Agency scientists have expressed an interest in contributing to the development of robotic technologies t ... more 
NKorea dismisses South's talks offer: As Korean FMs meetSeoul (AFP) Aug 7, 2017 North Korea dismissed offers of talks from the South during a rare exchange between the two rivals' foreign ministers, Seoul's Yonhap news agency reported Monday after the UN imposed a new round of sanctions on nuclear-armed Pyongyang. ... more  
Sea Launch to be modernized for Russia's Soyuz-5 carrier rocketMoscow (Sputnik) Aug 01, 2017 The Sea Launch international spacecraft launch service will be modernized to be suited for launches of Soyuz-5 medium-launch carrier rocket, the director general of Russia's Roscosmos state space co ... more |
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  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 
NASA's Mars 2020 mission, which will look for signs of past life on Mars, will use smart methods originally developed to find the oldest life on Earth, according the mission's Deputy Project Scientist, Dr Ken Williford. The 2020 mission builds on the successes of prior rovers, to make coordinated measurements that could detect signs of ancient life - or biosignatures - in their original spatial ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2017For Moratorium on Sending Commands to Mars, Blame the Sun  Paris (ESA) Jul 14, 2017Tributes to wetter times on Mars  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 14, 2017Opportunity will spend three weeks at current location due to Solar Conjunction |
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft will enter new territory in its final mission phase, the Grand Finale, as it prepares to embark on a set of ultra-close passes through Saturn's upper atmosphere with its final five orbits around the planet.
Cassini will make the first of these five passes over Saturn at 9:22 p.m. PDT Sunday, Aug. 13 (12:22 a.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 14). The spacecraft's point of close ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2017Cassini Prepares to Say Goodbye to a True Titan  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 31, 2017NASA finds moon of Saturn has chemical that could form 'membranes'  Charlottesville VA (SPX) Jul 31, 2017ALMA confirms complex chemistry in Titan's atmosphere |
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In July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sent home the first close-up pictures of Pluto and its moons - amazing imagery that inspired many to wonder what a flight over the distant worlds' icy terrain might be like.
Wonder no more. Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists have created flyover movies that offer s ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2017Juno spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot  Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 13, 2017New evidence in support of the Planet Nine hypothesis  Edinburgh UK (SPX) Aug 14, 2017Scientists probe Neptune's depths to reveal secrets of icy planets |
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Hurtling beyond the Moon at a speedy 25,000 mph for a three-week mission requires a space processor capable of operating with guaranteed reliability, in a high radiation environment tens of thousands of miles in deep space, at 480,000,000 instructions per second to execute thousands of commands and sequences for controlling the hundreds of spacecraft systems and components to ensure crew safety ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 21, 2017An era of continuous space communications of with TDRS  Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Aug 21, 2017NASA launches latest TDRS communications satellite  Washington (AFP) Aug 15, 2017NASA: let's say something to Voyager 1 on 40th anniversary of launch |
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To move a nanoparticle on the surface of a graphene sheet, you won't need a "nano-arm": by applying a temperature difference at the ends of the membrane, the nanocluster laying on it will drift from the hot region to the cold one. In addition, contrary to the laws ruling the world at the macroscale, the force acting on the particle - the so-called thermophoretic force - should not decrease as th ... more Chicago IL (SPX) Jul 31, 2017New method promises easier nanoscale manufacturing  Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Jul 21, 2017Nanoparticles could spur better LEDs, invisibility cloaks  Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Jul 18, 2017New material resembling a metal nanosponge could reduce computer energy consumption |
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 Vostochny (Sputnik) Aug 21, 2017 
The first technological equipment for the launch of the Angara heavy class carrier rocket has been delivered to the Vostochny Space Center in Russian Far East, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Wednesday.
"The first technological equipment for the Angara has arrived. It is in the assembly and testing facility," he said at a meeting at the Vostochny.
On Wednesday, t ... more Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 16, 2017SHIIVER tank arrives at NASA's Marshall Center for spray-on foam insulation  Miami (AFP) Aug 16, 2017'Dragon captured' as cargo arrives at space station  Miami (AFP) Aug 13, 2017SpaceX launches super-computer to space station |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 14, 2017 
Chinese scientists have become the first to realize quantum key distribution from a satellite to the ground, laying the foundation for building a hack-proof global quantum communication network.
The achievement based on experiments conducted with the world' s first quantum satellite, Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS), was published in the authoritative academic journal Nature on T ... more Xi'an, China (XNA) Aug 14, 2017Xian Satellite Control Center resolves over 10 major satellite faults in 50 years  Beijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2017China develops sea launches to boost space commerce Beijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2017Chinese satellite Zhongxing-9A enters preset orbit |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 
Archinaut, a NASA Technology Demonstration Mission (TDM) project developing cutting-edge technology to build and assemble complex hardware and supersized structures on demand in space, achieved an unprecedented milestone this summer.
"To our knowledge, this is the first time additive manufacturing has been successfully tested on such a large scale in the vacuum and temperature conditions o ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 18, 2017Cosmonauts launch 3D-printed satellite from space station  Houston TX (SPX) Aug 21, 2017NASA protects its super heroes from space weather  Nottingham, UK (SPX) Aug 17, 2017Surprise discovery in the search for energy efficient information storage |
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 Bozeman MT (SPX) Jul 26, 2017 
A Montana State University gravitational physicist has received funding for a research project that aims to answer fundamental questions about the universe.
NASA awarded $750,000 to Nicolas Yunes for his project "Exploring Extreme Gravity: Neutron Stars, Black Holes and Gravitational Waves." Yunes is a founding member of the MSU eXtreme Gravity Institute, known as XGI, and an associate pro ... more Hull UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017First look at gravitational dance that drives stellar formation  Warwick UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017Telescope for detecting optical signals from gravitational waves launched  Hannover, Germany (SPX) Jun 28, 2017LISA Gravitational-Wave Observatory Selected as ESA L3 Mission |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 
For the first time, astronomers have observed a cosmic event in great detail that they only had glimpses of before: a supernova and its explosive ejecta slamming into a nearby companion star. The discovery was made possible by a specialized survey taking advantage of recent advances in linking telescopes across the globe into a robotic network.
David Sand, an assistant professor at the Uni ... more Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2017A fleeting blue glow  Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2017New 3-D simulations show how galactic centers cool their jets Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 16, 2017Russia could launch Spektr-RG space observatory with German telescope in 2018 |
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Beijing (XNA) Aug 14, 2017
Chinese scientists have become the first to realize quantum key distribution from a satellite to the ground, laying the foundation for building a hack-proof global quantum communication network.
The achievement based on experiments conducted with the world' s first quantum satellite, Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS), was published in the authoritative academic journal Nature on T ... moreXi'an, China (XNA) Aug 14, 2017Xian Satellite Control Center resolves over 10 major satellite faults in 50 years Beijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2017China develops sea launches to boost space commerce Beijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2017Chinese satellite Zhongxing-9A enters preset orbit |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 17, 2017  Ten spacecraft, from ESA's Venus Express to NASA's Voyager-2, felt the effect of a solar eruption as it washed through the Solar System while three other satellites watched, providing a unique perspective on this space weather event. Scientists working on ESA's Mars Express were looking forward to investigating the effects of the close encounter of Comet Siding Spring on the Red Planet's atmosph ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 17, 2017NASA, ESA spacecraft track solar storm through space Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 16, 2017Studying the sun's atmosphere with the total solar eclipse of 2017  Paris (ESA) Aug 21, 2017ESA's Proba-3 will create artificial solar eclipses |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 18, 2017 
ASTROSCALE completed a Series C round and raised $53 million in total to date. Private companies, ANA Holdings Inc. (ANA - parent company of ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS Co., Ltd.) and OSG Corporation, join recurring venture capital investors (Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, JAFCO Co., Ltd., and Mitsubishi UFJ Capital) alongside new financier aSTART Co., Ltd.
The successful completion of Se ... more Paris (ESA) Jul 14, 2017LISA Pathfinder: bake, rattle and roll  San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 14, 2017Blue Sky Network Reaffirms Commitment to Brazilian Market  New Delhi (Sputnik) Aug 14, 2017India to Launch Exclusive Satellite for Afghanistan |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 21, 2017 
Asteroid Florence, a large near-Earth asteroid, will pass safely by Earth on Sept. 1, 2017, at a distance of about 4.4 million miles, (7.0 million kilometers, or about 18 Earth-Moon distances).
Florence is among the largest near-Earth asteroids that are several miles in size; measurements from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and NEOWISE mission indicate it's about 2.7 miles (4.4 kilometers) ... more Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2017Asteroid Apophis has One in 100,000 chance of hitting Earth  Paris (ESA) Aug 14, 2017Asteroid 2012 TC4 will fly past Earth in October 2017  Paris (AFP) Aug 10, 2017Asteroid to shave past Earth on Oct 12: ESA |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 
Building on recent breakthroughs in autonomous cyber systems and formal methods, DARPA has announced a new research program called Assured Autonomy that aims to advance the ways computing systems can learn and evolve to better manage variations in the environment and enhance the predictability of autonomous systems like driverless vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
"Tremendous a ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 14, 2017Northrop Grumman to demonstrate autonomous networked unmanned vehicles  Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 19, 2017AI revolution will be all about humans, says Siri trailblazer  Palo Alto CA (SPX) Aug 14, 2017SSL and NASA complete preliminary design review for on-orbit robotic servicing spacecraft |
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